Fountaineeers from all over the world certainly lived up to Fountain principles when they met for the annual get together at Glastonbury in Somerset . I'm sure that everyone left with a greater connection and awareness with all that is.

Following the welcome from Giles, Joy Byner led those gathered in the opening meditation and attunement. She went on to tell of her experiences working with the higher Archetypes, particularly that of Foregiveness. It was given as a many pointed star, a bit like a sparkler, with main points to the top bottom and sides. On one occasion when an archetype for good and evil was given as a pair of scales with a bowl at each end, the archetype of Foregiveness was places on the T-piece at the centre of the scales and the bowls representing Good and Evil were brought to the centre T-piece. When they met there was an explosion of light and a beautiful Dove of Peace appeared and the message that only when Good and Evil were transmuted by Foregivess there would be no Judgement and Peace would prevail.

She also reminded the audience of her visit to a conference in Hawaii organised by the "Peace Troubador" James Twyman and how when she was in Jerusalem at the time of Yasser Arrafat's funeral there were thousands of Lightworkers also there for apparently unrelated events including James Twyman who was leading a multidenominational gathering calling for lightworkers to send in love. She christened him the "mobile Hara". She also introduced Fountain told us of how at the Hawaii conference they had been given the phrase "Peace prevails on earth, now" and in Jerusalem Joy had received an extension to this so the phrase became "Peace prevails on Earth, now all is foregiven". This was adopted throughout the weekend.

As Judith Mann was unable to be there Alan Peskett filled the gap with an entertaining talk about the effefts of the earth energy grid. He related how he when he first was aware of his dowsing and healing abilities and started practise in his own home he dowsed an unbalanced enrgy grid within the property. He followed the lines outside the house and up the street and found they were getting closer and closer together until he located the source of the problem some 70m away from his home.

After a short break Terry Monnery talked about the power of thought. He provided a practical demonstration of this power using a bottle of the local "white spring" water. He asked Joy Byner to measure the energy field of the water and then held up the bottle and invited those in the room to send a thought of "blessing & gratitude" to the water. Joy the remeasured the energy field and found that it had grown from it's original 0.6m to more than 2m. Terry then had the audience send a non loving thought to the water. It's energy field shrank to about 0.15m. This was quickly rectified by once again sending the original thought. Terry pointed out that the bottle was about 70% full, the same as the water content of the human body and hoped that we would be aware how our thoughts were affecting our own bodies. He went on to mention the involvement of the ego and it's control of the thinking process and how personal thoughts create personal reality and conditioning in early life leaves us believing in a warped reality.

Following a suggestion from the audience the power of our combined thoughts was used on hurricane Rita. Rita was visualised as an inflated red balloon, the end was then untied and the air within allowed to gently flow out, being transmuted to love on the way, and to spread around the planet.

When I arrived home late Sunday following the get together I looked through a national paper and was greeted by this headline "Rita runs out of Puff" - the Power of Thought!!

We were then introduced to the power of sound by Jayson Stiwlell. Jason related how he realised his gift when after becoming aware of toning he one day bent down to pick up the post and a strange sound emitted from his mouth, the sound was un under tone. His belief in the healing power of the voice was further reinforced when after being shown much kindness by a man he did not know, he sang to the man's knee and was able to relieve the man's painfull suffering following a recent operation. Jayson also recounted an experience of his where he decided to experiment with his voice on one of the stones at Averbury. This developed into a five hour ceremony. At the end of the ceremony he heard a voice in his head saying "you have performed a service and are to recieve reward for it. What do you want?" As Jayson said "I blew and forgot to ask for world peace, instead I said the cymbals on my drum kit were worn out." Anyway, a week or so later when he went to thro a crisp packet into a wheelie rubbish bin he lifted the lid and inside foun a new set of cymbals, complete with wrapping paper.

Jayson then had the audience practise making sounds, a first and revealing experience for many of us. He concluded by giving the audience a healing whilst demonstrating under toning and over toning. A powerful impact on all.

After lunch Gaila Mackenzie told of her first meeting with Colin Bloy and her training in with him in Spain. She continued with details and tales of her work across the United States and Canada.

She went on to display the archetype she had been given for "enchantment", an equal arm cross with the end of each arm shaped like a three fingered knuckle. Many of us would not know we had been enchanted, it could be when others place attachments on us. Gaila went on to explain that the cross would then be entwined with briars and thorns. Removing these clears the enchantment.

As a conclusion Gaila advised that there was likely to be a board established to assess any new archetypes and disseminate the information. The board will be based in Spain.

(Gaila is giving a certificated workshop in the UK this October and also next spring, details will be posted on this site. )

Giles Bryant followed on from Gaila and spoke about the development of Fountain. He talked about the official launch of the Fountain dvd in Brighton on Saturday 24 June 2006 everybody wellcome. The dvd will comprise of all elements of Fountain, experiences, workshops, interviews, material from this conference, old footage of Colin Bloy and much more. Giles mentioned the success of the recent Fountain day in London and suggested having more regional get togethers which would enable more Fountaineers to meet one another.

The final talk by Nicholas Mann was about the Soul Portal of Glastonbury. NIcholas expained that there are portals all over the planet and they usually have a red and/or white spring and have spacial alignments. He displayed images taken from the nearby "mound", at the time of the solstice, showing the sun rising along the scarp face of the Tor, thus allowing it's use also as a calender. Nicholas went on to give details of how the portal facilitates the passing of souls back to their higher being.

Alan Peskett brought proceedings to a close. An hour or so later we all gathered together again for the evening meal which provided the opportunity for catching up with old friends and exploring new ones. This passed all too quickly and we made our way home for the night's rest in preparation for the following day's tour.

After overnight rain Sunday dawned sunny and breezy. We met in the local bus station car park and opened the day with the now usual Fountain car park meditation before moving into the Abbey grounds. Inside the grounds we were greeted by a traditional potter who was in the process of opening his hand built kiln in which he was firing mugs and dishes. He explained the hardships of the middle ages and the benefits of using a lead glaze on mugs. The lead is leeched out by the rather rough wine of the time and sweetened the taste.

The octagonal "Abbot's kitchen" with it's display of freshly provided herbs and spices for cooking, provided the first setting for a chant and prayer. The building had a wonderful feeling to it and I suspect from the shape had Templar connections.

The grounds and abbey ruins provided many feelings and sensations of the ongoing activities prior to the dissolution of the abbey in Henry VIII's reign. The herb gardens, orchards and wildlife area are a must to be included in places to be visited in the abbey.

Gathering in the crypt beneath the Lady Chapel we were led in another Fountain meditation by Joy, sending love and light to the plant and animal kingdoms and to Gaia.

Following the lunch period the more energetic made there way to the top of the Tor watching shower flurries rushing by, whilst others congregated in the Chalice Well Gardens. At 3.33 we had the closing ceremony on the Tor, culminating in the formation of a spiral of Fountaineers in the tower a meditation and then the chant of "Peace prevails on Earth, now all is forgiven". A fitting finale.

As hugs and farewells were exchanged I noticed a small section of rainbow in the sky above the Tor.